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W. Frank Peacock, IV, MD
Deepak L. Bhatt, MD
Venu Menon, MD
W. Frank PEACOCK, IV, MD, graduated cum laude from Alma College in Alma, Michigan, with a BS in Biology and received his MD from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, where he then joined the faculty. Subsequently he has held faculty positions at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the Ohio State University, Metro Health Medical Center, and most recently at The Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland.
Currently, Dr. Peacock is Vice-Chair, in the Institute of Emergency Services at The Cleveland Clinic, as well as Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Ohio State University in Columbus.
Dr. Peacock has served on numerous hospital positions and is currently the Chairman of the Emergency Preparedness Committee, and the Medical Director of Event Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. The Event Medicine program provides medical care for all of the major sports and entertainment stadiums in Cleveland, including the Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers.
Dr. Peacock is currently on the Board of Directors for the Society of Chest Pain, and serves as the chairman of the Heart Failure committee for the same society. He is an active national, regional, and state speaker at numerous cardiology and emergency medicine meetings for the last 15 years.
Dr. Peacock has also published widely, especially in the area of heart failure and acute coronary syndromes. With over 125 publications and equal number of published abstracts, he is also the co-editor of the book Cardiac Emergencies, and was most recently the editor of the text Short Stay Management of Heart Failure.
He serves on the Editorial Board for the journal Congestive Heart Failure, and performs reviews for the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, American Heart Journal, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Clinical Chemistry, and other publications.
Among the several awards he has received is the Excellence in Research Award from the
American College of Emergency Physicians in 2004, and the Codman Award from the American Association of Group Practice for his efforts in heart failure research.
Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FESC, FACP, FCCP, FAHA. After graduating as valedictorian from the Boston Latin School, Dr. Bhatt obtained his undergraduate science degree as a National Merit Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while also serving as a research associate at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical doctorate from Cornell University. His internship and residency in internal medicine were performed at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His cardiovascular training was completed at the Cleveland Clinic. He also completed fellowships in interventional cardiology and cerebral and peripheral vascular intervention, as well as serving as chief interventional fellow at the Cleveland Clinic. For many years, he served on the staff of the Cleveland Clinic as an interventional cardiologist and was an Associate Professor of Medicine. He served for many years as the Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship and as Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Bhatt was listed in Best Doctors in America in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. His research interests include preventive cardiology, as well as the optimal management of patients with acute coronary syndromes. He also has research interests in advanced techniques in cardiac, cerebral, and peripheral intervention.
He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles, including in Circulation Research, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, and New England Journal of Medicine. He is on the editorial boards of Acute Coronary Syndromes, American Heart Journal, Cardiosource (Associate Editor, Clinical Trials), CCI, Circulation, Indian Heart Journal, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (named an Elite Reviewer in 2004, 2005, and 2006), andJournal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, and is Section Editor of Adjunctive Therapy for the Journal of Invasive Cardiology. He is the editor of Essential Concepts in Cardiovascular Intervention and Guide to Peripheral and Cerebrovascular Intervention, as well as co-editor of the Handbook of Acute Coronary Syndromes. He is the international principal investigator for the CHARISMA and CRESCENDO trials and co-principal investigator of the CHAMPION and LANCELOT trials. He serves as the co-chair of the REACH registry.
He is also on the steering committees of ARCHIPELAGO, APPRAISE, ATLAS ACS-TIMI 46, CRUSADE, and SEPIA-PCI. Dr. Bhatt has been a visiting lecturer at a number of institutions, including Baylor College of Medicine, Boston University, Emory University, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard, Mayo Clinic, Penn State, University of Alabama, University of Massachusetts, University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, and Yale. He has also lectured internationally, including at the Brazilian Society of Cardiology, French Society of Cardiology, Japanese Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Italian Society of Cardiology, Indonesian Heart Association, McGill University, McMaster University, Montreal Heart Institute, and Swiss Cardiac Society.
He has been interviewed extensively by news agencies such as CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC, the New York Times, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal on topics ranging from premature coronary artery disease to the role of inflammation and genetics in heart attacks. Dr. Bhatt currently serves as Chief of Cardiology of the VA Boston Healthcare System and Director of the Integrated Interventional Cardiovascular Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the VA Boston Healthcare System, as well as a Senior Investigator in the TIMI Study Group.
Venu Menon, MD, FACC, FAHA is Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and a staff cardiologist in the Section of Cardiovascular Imaging, at Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, nuclear cardiology and echocardiography. Dr. Menon received his medical degree from the J.I.P.M.E.R. Medical School, Madras University in Pondicherry, India. He completed his internship in internal medicine at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, College of Physician and Surgeons, in New York. Here he received the Chief Resident's Award as well as the Michael Rauchman Award for best graduating resident. He went on to complete his fellowship training in cardiovascular disease and continued his research training as a Clinical Research Fellow on the NIH-supported SHOCK Trial.
Dr. Menon has held several academic appointments. He was Assistant Director of Cardiac Research at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award as Outstanding Teacher of the Year (2001-2002) while in New York. Dr. Menon served as Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. While in North Carolina, he was also Director of the Coronary Care Unit and Director of the Chest Pain Unit at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. During his tenure at UNC School of Medicine, he was named Educator of the Year and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Dr. Menon joined the Cleveland Clinic in 2005. In 2007 he received the Distinguished Teacher Award for outstanding contribution to the education of cardiology fellows at the Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Menon is a reviewer for the American Heart Journal, the American Journal of Cardiology, the European Heart Journal, the Journal of Thrombosis & Hemostasis, Critical Care Medicine and the American Journal of Medicine. His research interests have focused on early revascularization for cardiogenic shock as well as the late open artery hypothesis. He has published his research in leading peer-reviewed medical journals. He has authored or co-authored textbooks and chapters in medical textbooks and has been invited to lecture on his specialty interests throughout the United States and Canada.